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Kubernetes: liveness, readiness and startup probes
Kubernetes separates probes for whether a container should restart, whether it can receive service traffic and whether startup has completed. The documentation shows how startup probes protect slow initialization and how readiness can temporarily remove an unready workload from service traffic.
- Provenance
- Kubernetes documentation
- Updated
- 2026-11-08T22:15:37.838457Z